Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Extraordinary Bodies

Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Twentieth Anniversary Edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780231183178
• ISBN-10: 0231183178
• Artikelnr.: 47217496

Autorenporträt

Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Preface and Acknowledgments
I. Politicizing Bodily Differences
1. Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction
2. Theorizing Disability
II. Constructing Disabled Figures: Cultural and Literary Sites
3. The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835-1940
4. Benevolent Maternalism and the Disabled Women in Stowe, Davis, and
Phelps
5. Disabled Women as Powerful Women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde
Conclusion: From Pathology to Identity
Notes
Bibliography
Index